By not caring too much about what people think,I'm able to think for myselfand propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.And I succeed.- Albert Ellis

We each have a sixth sense that isattuned to the oneness dimension in life,providing a means for us to guide our livesin accord with our ideas.- Henry Reed

It's YOUR time - it's YOUR life -YOU get to choose how you use it. There is no way that your life is "supposed" to be.Your parents had their vision for your life.Your boss, your spouse, your church, your friends,and even the family next door have their ideasof how you should live your life.What about YOUR vision for your life?What do YOU want?YES, it matters what you want.YES you can have what you want.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Important ideas can come from unexpected places.We tend to label people - Genius, Idiot,Socialist, Regressive, Wingnut, Revolutionary, Terrorist.But it is helpful to remind ourselves to be opento good ideas - whatever their source.It is equally important to avoid accepting any ideamerely because we respect that person'sother ideas or accomplishments.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I choose to adapt to the circumstances in which I find myself.I choose to be flexible in my dealings with those around me.I understand that my way is not the only way -that inner peace comes from respecting the ways of others,and that, if I am open, I may gain great insights and happinessfrom the ideas and traditions of others.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Everyone is a genius at least once a year;a real genius has his original ideas closer together.- Georg Lichtenberg

If you are over 30, get out your high-school yearbookand look for ideas you can apply today -perhaps an innocent optimism about life -perhaps a hobby you loved.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Social progress can be measuredby the social position of the female sex.- Karl Marx(German philosopher and political economistwhose ideas are credited as the foundation of modern communism)

Be less curious about people,and more curious about ideas.- Marie Curie

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideashe disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.- Thomas Jefferson

You ask me if I keep a notebookto record my great ideas.I've only ever had one.- Albert Einstein

Tyranny cannot defeat the power of ideas.- Helen Keller

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts,foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values.For a nation that is afraid to let its people judgethe truth and falsehood in an open marketis a nation that is afraid of its people.- John F. Kennedy

Just once in a while, let us exaltthe importance of ideas and information.- Edward R. Murrow

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.- Albert Einstein

My ideas usually come not at my desk writingbut in the midst of living.- Anais Nin

College isn't the place to go for ideas.- Helen Keller

God screens us evermore from premature ideas.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism.To steal from many is research.- Anonymous

My ideas have undergone a processof emergence by emergency.When they are needed badly enough,they are accepted.- R. Buckminster Fuller

I never accepted the ideathat I had to be guided bysome pattern or blueprint.- Little Richard

An idea is salvation by imagination.- Frank Lloyd Wright

The movie character Forrest Gump describing lifeas being "like a box of chocolates,"is such a positive upbeat way ofcharacterizing the uncertainty of life.I have no idea what life will give me next,but whatever it is, it will be sweet.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

An idea that is not dangerous isunworthy of being called an idea at all.- Oscar Wilde

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be consideredwith a searching but at the same time a steady eye.- Winston Churchill

A person with a new idea isa crank until the idea succeeds.- Mark Twain

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,never regains its original dimensions.- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it.It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.- Grace Hopper

Many persons have a wrong idea ofwhat constitutes true happiness.It is not attained through self-gratificationbut through fidelity to a worthy purpose.- Helen Keller

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.- John F. Kennedy

A good question is never answered.It is not a bolt to be tightened into placebut a seed to be planted and to bear more seedtoward the hope of greening the landscape of idea.- John Ciardi

When an idea reaches critical massthere is no stopping the shiftits presence will induce.- Marianne Williamson

If you are possessed by an idea,you will find it expressed everywhere,you even smell it.- Thomas Mann

Unity can only be manifested by the Binary.Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two.- The Buddha

The human mind treats a new idea the way the bodytreats a strange protein; it rejects it.- Peter Medawar

An idea that is developed and put into actionis more important thanan idea that exists only as an idea.- The Buddha

An invasion of armies can be resisted,but not an idea whose time has come.- Victor Hugo

Every really new idea looks crazy at first.- Alfred North Whitehead

It takes a long while for a naturally trustful personto reconcile himself to the idea thatafter all God will not help him- H. L. Mencken

Plant trees for your great-grandchildren -for future generations.Create the legacy of a better world.Leave this world a better place than you found it.Literally planting trees foryour great-grandchildren is a wonderful idea,but far more important...use this symbolism - this imagery -to represent the kind of legacyyou want to leave to future generations.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

However carefully we plan our future,we are always climbing the steps to nowhere.While it is important to our happinessthat we have an intent for our lives,it is equally crucial to accept in advancethat we truly have no idea how our lives will turn out -and that is good.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The intellect is a cold thingand a merely intellectual ideawill never stimulate thoughtin the same manner that a spiritual idea does.- Ernest Holmes

I will dance a little.I will move with the wind.I will give my body to my love and celebratethat we have substance beyond the idea of ourselves.We can move. We can touch. This is my physical exclamation point.This is how I can awaken my mind to the possibilities in the day.- Mary Anne Radmacher

That deep emotional conviction of the presenceof a superior reasoning power, which is revealedin the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God.- Albert Einstein

Unity with all creation is a huge idea,but it fits comfortably within the vast cathedral of our being.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Do real life people actually fall in lovewith the idea of being in love?Unfortunately, it is actually quite common.Someone wants desperately to havethe husband or wife of their dreams.They visualize the vine-covered cottagewith the white picket fence.They choose the colors for the nursery.They design all the aspects of their married life.A real person stands no chance of measuring up to those fantasies.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is a secret wisdom-of-the-agesthat holds the key to breaking ourcycle of self-imposed suffering.The secret wisdom is, "Life is not supposed to be fair."This is not sad news. This is GLORIOUS news!Life is not broken. Nothing is wrong.God has not failed, died, or gone on vacation.The world is working perfectly. We just misunderstood.Somewhere along the way, someone got the idea thatlife was "supposed" to be "fair,"and all the trouble started -expectation, disappointment, resentment, anger -a whole cycle of suffering that beganwith the belief that life is "supposed" to be "fair."- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Just as in the comedies, a person who is in lovewith the idea of love sees prospective partnersthrough the lens of idealism.The reaction is, "This must be the one.They are so perfect - the match of my dreams."Is that person they just met a perfect match?It's unlikely their friends think so.So what happened? That person with the cute smilewas not much more than a mirror for the hopes and dreamsof the one in love with love.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Beyond mind, there is an awareness that is intrinsic,that is not given to you by the outside, and is not an idea -and there is no experiment up to nowthat has found any center in the brainwhich corresponds to awareness.The whole work of meditation isto make you aware of all that is "mind"and disidentify yourself from it.That very separation is thegreatest revolution that can happen to man.Now you can do and act on only thatwhich makes you more joyous, fulfills you,gives you contentment, makes your life a work of art, a beauty.But this is possible only if the master in you is awake.- Osho

The idea of brotherhood re-dawns upon the worldwith a broader significancethan the narrow association ofmembers in a sect or creed.- Helen Keller

A mind, once stretched by a new idea,never regains its original dimensions.- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

When I eventually met Mr. RightI had no idea that his first name was Always.- Rita Rudner

As I would not be a slave,so I would not be a master.This expresses my idea of democracy.- Abraham Lincoln

The value of an idea has nothing whatsoeverto do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.- Oscar Wilde

After fifteen minutes I wanted to marry her,and after half an hourI completely gave up the idea of stealing her purse.- the movie Take the Money and Run (1969)

The church is always trying to get other people to reform;it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little,by way of example.- Mark Twain

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.- Walter Bagehot

There is nobody in this country who got rich on their own. Nobody. You built a factory out there - good for you. But I want to be clear. You moved your goods to market on roads the rest of us paid for. You hired workers the rest of us paid to educate. You were safe in your factory because of police forces and fire forces that the rest of us paid for. You didn't have to worry that marauding bands would come and seize everything at your factory... Now look. You built a factory and it turned into something terrific or a great idea - God bless! Keep a hunk of it. But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along."- Elizabeth Warren

What do I think of Western civilization?I think it would be a very good idea.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.- Don Marquis

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